Jim Webb was perfect, except, we're not living in two different countries. We're living in two different moral universes because we're not dealing with two different POLITICAL dialectics, but, rather, in two different LEGAL dichotomies.

Chipping away at democracy--it won't be long now--another curve in the road map towards fascism--right here in the good ole U.S. of A.!!! A little bit here, a little bit there, and if allowed to continue we may not see the end of George Bush come 2008! As we witness the forced exodus of federal prosecutors, we are reminded that the year 2000 showed us all what a stacked court could do to democracy by rendering the people's choice for president null and void! And just what do you think a bunch of "biased" federal prosecutors can do to our freedoms????

We came across this exciting online tool: an electoral map that allows you to change states according to whether or not you think they will go red or blue in 2008. It’s located here: http://www.270towin.com/

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So here is how this BuzzFlash contest works.

You pair up any potential Democratic candidates into a Presidential and Vice-Presidential ticket – and then you use the map to show how that particular ticket would reach the 270 votes needed to elect a President and Vice-President.

On the whole, George W. Bush's State of the Union last night was depressing and regretful, other than at the end when he milked the heroism and accomplishments of others to end on a high note. As in past years, he also proposed generally progressive policies that he has no intentions of actually following through on.

Hmm - I wonder why he didn't think of that before he invaded. He says the "egg is just cracked" (maybe he's really referring to his own head!) but in Iraq the egg was smashed no later than April 2003. Now he's noticing?

If you watched freshman Virginia Sen. Jim Webb deliver the Democratic response to Bush’s State of the Union speech, you witnessed something historic -- a Democrat on national TV unabashedly ripping into six years of Bush rule for an uninterrupted 10 minutes.

How easy for the armchair generals of the far right to make pronouncements on Iraq and Vietnam. They are the same ones that spout Vietnam was “lost on the home front.” It speaks of just how far removed they were and are from the realities of war.

From this point on, it's all about creating a scapegoat for the cabal.

Behind closed doors, in the smoke filled rooms of the elite and connected, the cabal has finally come to the conclusion at which we long ago arrived. And, since the neocons would rather slow-walk through the coals of hell than open a dialogue with Iran and Syria, they're predictably going to waste an opportunity for a positive outcome by not seeking a diplomatic solution.